Chapter 4: High school
High schools are like little worlds. You have the leaders, the ones with money, the ones with a job, the popular ones and the nobodys. In every high school there are the jocks and the cheerleaders, who believe they own the world. They have no compation and no feelings for everyone else. Everybody knows who they are, but they don't know anything about anybody else. There are ecaptions of course, but not a lot. There are the ones with money to whom everybody is nice, just so they can get something from them. And then there are the nobody's. The invicible ones.
Summer bay high was no different then any other high school. I've been going here for a couple of months, three to be exact. It's the end of the school year and I still haven't gotten used to it. But it only took me a week to know everything there was to now. There are the jocks, the students who play in the football team. Tony Holden, who is very nice by the way, coaches the team.
There's Kim Hyde, if you can avoid to come in contact with him do it. I never had a chance, he's still mad at me. It seems ilogical to me. He's mad because he trow a ball at me, while I was standing with my back to him. It's not logical, but that doesn't seem to matter. Then there's Jack Holden. The boy with the golden smile. The one who saved me. He chases the nightmares away every night. But he doesn't know who I am. He's nice to everyone but that's it. He doesn't even know my name.
Then there are the cheerleaders. There's Tasha, who seems very nice. Robbie seems to have a crush on her. But she doesn't know he exist. Then there's Brooke. She is a friend of Tasha and Kim's girlfriend. She seems nice but that's about it. She doesn't speak to anyone, I doubt she knows I exist. But I know everything about her. Then there's Carla. She's a friend of me. She's also a cheerleader but she's a nobody.
She used to be one of the popular kids. But somehow she got to be a nobody. The only thing that's left of her popularity is that she's stil a cheerleader. I don't know if she'll still be last year. Kim hates her. Jack and Tasha are still nice to her, but not to much. Kim is Jack's best friend after all. Then there's also Cathy. Cathy is a good friend of me. She's a nobody. She's in the drama club and loves to draw. Her mother's dead and her father is a cop.
That's what I like so much about Cathy she understands me. She lost one of her parents to. I lost both but still she understands. The only problem is she's moving away next year. She's going to yabbie creek. And she won't come to school anymore. It doesn't really matter. We'll still be friends, she just wont come to my school anymore. And then there's Robbie, he's simply nuts. He makes us laugh, but he's an even bigger nobody then any of us. He lives next to Jack, but Jack doesn't even know his name. That's my high school.
The end of the year is coming nearer but Jack has never even talked to me. The ringing bell brings me back to reality. Time for a new class. Robbie smiles at me, I told him about my parents but just like Cathy and Carla he's completely understanding. He doesn't ask anything, he doesn't mention them. Only when I mention them he talks about them. I like that. Jack smiles at me when I walk past him, but that's about it. I sit down, the teacher tried to stop people from talking to each other so he sat everyone trough each other.
The irony is that I sit next to Jack and behind Tasha. And neither of them knows who I am. Everyone looks at the blackboard. The teacher has written one sentence on it. This is the class that will change your life. Everyone starts to laugh. I smile the class that will change my life? I doubt it. Nobody could bring my parents back or make my grandparents want me. And nothing could make Jack notice me or Tasha notice Robbie. Or could it?
